Investment pros will finally admit it when you pin them down: Short-term stock movements are about luck. We can speculate about what the Federal Reserve will say at the next meeting, how soon and how fast inflation will slow, or when the war in Ukraine will mercifully end, but no one really knows. Successful investing isn't about chasing short-term fads; it's about looking at secular trends and choosing terrific companies that will profit. 

As Wayne Gretzky said (and Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs have quoted), "Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been."

With this in mind, let's take a look at three companies with fierce secular tailwinds: Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), Builders FirstSource (NYSE: BLDR), and Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN).  

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